World News Roundup from Capitals and Frontiers
A weekly dispatch surveys geopolitics with notes on Poland Lithuania border talks ending a clash, Bulgaria Turkey talks, Dawes plan debates, and a Geneva peace congress. It also reports on Coolidge and Dawes politics, notable deaths, natural disasters, and fire losses in Palm Beach, plus international figures in aviation and science.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Trustees of the
Church Peace Union
Tornado Toll Stuns Five States With Massive Losses
A Chicago dispatch reports about 823 dead and 2,990 injured across Illinois Indiana Missouri Kentucky and Tennessee after a tornado that leveled towns from Murphysboro to De Soto. Red Cross aid mobilized, towns burned, and hundreds homeless as authorities tally massive damage and search remnants.
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Domestic
Illinois
Missouri
Indiana
Chicago
Kentucky
Tennessee
Murphysboro
West Frankfort
de Soto
Gorham
Heign
Griffin
Iinceton
Owensville
Biehle
Gallatin
Tenn
National Guard
Pullman
Princeton
Red Cross
St. Louis
West Franfort
Carbondale
Guy
Jackson
Posey
Southern Railway
Washington
National
The
Coolidge
Centralia
Max Burton
Burton
Illinois Central
Tamaroa
Grossville Fee Ee
Knoxville
Kirkland
Missouri Biehle
Cape Girardeau
Perryville
Annapeplis
Attenbure
UG KY Beaumont
Holland
Lakeland
Springfield
Aeee
Lexington
Bridgeport
Ee Eee
Sekele
Storm area relief grows as death toll tops eight hundred
Relief work accelerates across the storm wrecked region with funds pouring in from nationwide sources. The death toll in five states reaches 811 as hospitals shelters and cemeteries cope with the aftermath and plans for permanent housing and rehabilitation unfold.
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Chicago
Gasoline tax totals and allocation across states
Washington reported 35 states and the District of Columbia collected 79,794,490 in gasoline taxes last year. About 48,711,326 funded state road maintenance and local road funds. average tax per vehicle was 10.50. California earned 11,993,222 from a 2 cent levy with 5,996,611 for state roads. Pennsylvania 9,089,541 also at 2 cents with unclear highway use. Wyoming 200,319 all for roads.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Department of Agriculture
California
Pennsylvania
Wyoming
Treasury predicts tax surplus prompts new tax cuts
Treasury figures show 1924 income tax returns and March 15 payments totaling 1.66 billion dollars, indicating a likely treasury surplus by year end. The result supports expectations that a drastic reduction in income taxes by the next congress is virtually assured unless unforeseen contingencies arise.
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Washington
Congress
Treasury
Five Year Old Burns Seriously in Lubbock Play Accident
George Wilson, age 5 and son of Ira Wilson, was badly burned while playing with his two brothers in Lubbock Texas. He is in a dying condition at a local hospital.
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Charles A. Culberson
Texas
Washington
Lubbock
Tex
George Wilson
Ira Wilson
Franco German Potash Merger Aims at Shared Markets
Officials in Washington report a Franco German agreement to coordinate potash markets and set common price levels. The accord covers both countries and reflects intended market sharing.
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Washington
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Lithuania
League of Nations
Angora
Bulgaria
Turkey
Simeon, Radoff
Ae Ee
Vite
Dawe
Beeni
Baron ‘von ‘Maltzan
Senate
Borak
Paris
Sirvintal
New England
White House
Davis
Hannah Chaplin
Los Angeles
Charles Chaplin
Charles W. Bryan
William J
General Council of the Presbyterian Church
Miami
Bethlehem Mine Corporation
Fairmont
W. Va
Jardine
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Cambridge
Mass
Jorr
J.N., Darling
J. N. Ding
Des Moines
Palm Beach
Fla
Breakers
Wilder S. “Métcalf
Lawrence
Steelville
Farmers Bank
Steeleville
Alexander H. Kerr
Tulsa, Ok
Kerr
W. E. Lemley
Popular Bluff
Annapolis
Mr. Lemley
Schultze
Texas Senate
Ferguson
Irwin Mackey
Sergeant Womack
Kelly Field
San Antonio
United States
Solomon L. Jeffers
Chamber of Deputies
Tokio
Maragha
Anton Flettner
Berlin
Marquis Curzon
Kedleston
William Walter Bradfield
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company
London
Tle
New York
Buenos Aires
Ind
Ill
Southern Illinois
No. 18
Baptist Church
Chref
Joe Boston
Duquoin
Duquoin Hospital
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